THE CULTURAL MODERNITY OF H.I.E. DHLOMO

248pp., paperback, Trenton, 2007

Ntongela Masilela considers the role playwright, short-story writer, essayist, poet and journalist H. I. E. Dhlomo (1903-1956) played in the construction of a New African modernity by examining the articles he wrote for the the newspapers Umteteli wa Bantu newspaper (1920s and 1930s) and Ilanga lase Natal (1940s and 1950s).

Masilela is Professor of English and World Literature and Professor of Creative Studies and Director of the H. I. E. Dhlomo Center for African Intellectual History at Pitzer College, Claremont, California. He is also Adjunct Professor of African American Studies at the University of California in Irvine.